Transcriptome analysis of Dendrobium officinale and its application to the identification of genes associated with polysaccharide synthesis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Zhenming eYu¹  Songjun eZeng¹  Chunmei eHe¹  Jianxia eZhang¹  Kunlin eWu¹  Xinhua eZhang¹  Jun eDuan¹  Haoqiang eXia²  Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva³ 

[1] Chinese Academy of Science;Guangzhou Genedenovo Biotechnology Co., Ltd;Kagawa University;

关键词: Transcriptome;    secondary metabolism;    glycosyltransferase;    polysaccharide synthesis;    D. officinale;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpls.2016.00005

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Dendrobium officinale is one of the most important Chinese medicinal herbs. Polysaccharides are one of the main active ingredients of D. officinale. To identify the genes that maybe related to polysaccharides synthesis, two cDNA libraries were prepared from juvenile and adult D. officinale, and were named Dendrobium-1 and Dendrobium-2, respectively. Illumina sequencing for Dendrobium-1 generated 102 million high quality reads that were assembled into 93,881 unigenes with an average sequence length of 790 base pairs. The sequencing for Dendrobium-2 generated 86 million reads that were assembled into 114,098 unigenes with an average sequence length of 695 base pairs. Two transcriptome databases were integrated and assembled into a total of 145,791 unigenes. Among them, 17,281 unigenes were assigned to 126 KEGG pathways while 135 unigenes were involved in fructose and mannose metabolism. Gene Ontology analysis revealed that the majority of genes were associated with metabolic and cellular processes. Furthermore, 430 glycosyltransferase and 89 cellulose synthase genes were identified. Comparative analysis of both transcriptome databases revealed a total of 32,794 differential expression genes (DEGs), including 22,051 up-regulated and 10,743 down-regulated genes in Dendrobium-2 compared to Dendrobium-1. Furthermore, a total of 1142 and 7918 unigenes showed unique expression in Dendrobium-1 and Dendrobium-2, respectively. These DEGs were mainly correlated with metabolic pathways and the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. In addition, 170 DEGs belonged to glycosyltransferase genes, 37 DEGs were related to cellulose synthase genes and 627 DEGs encoded transcription factors. This study substantially expands the transcriptome information for D. officinale and provides valuable clues for identifying candidate genes involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis and elucidating the mechanism of polysaccharide biosynthesis.

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